Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud today announced the expansion of their long-term strategic alliance, aimed at accelerating Indosat’s transformation from telco to AI Native TechCo.
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T-Mobile has been selected for a $2.67 billion defence contract that will make them a wireless solutions provider for the U.S. Navy for the next decade.
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South Korean telco SK Telecom has announced today that it will invest $10 million in US-based generative AI search engine start up Perplexity.
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has bought a 3.16% share of BT for roughly £400 million, making him one of the company’s largest shareholders.
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Ericsson and Telefónica Germany have agreed to extend their core network partnership. The deal extends their initial core partnership, which first began back in 2020.
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Vodafone Germany has partnered with German data collection company FlyNex to set up a platform called ‘DroNet Hub’, designed to plan and manage commercial drone flights.
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The European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into UAE-based operator e&’s acquisition of Czech telco group PPF over concerns that it has been “granted foreign subsidies that could distort the EU internal market”.
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At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week, Apple has announced a new partnership with OpenAI that will integrate ChatGPT directly within Apple devices.
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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published an update on its investigation into the UK’s public cloud infrastructure services (cloud services).
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Vodafone has landed the 2Africa subsea cable system in Bude, Cornwall. The cable is the largest subsea cable project in the world, spanning 45,000 kilometers to connect Europe, Asia, and Africa once it is fully operational.
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Microsoft has announced that it will build a huge data centre on the outskirts of Leeds, on a site costing £106.6 million. The deal was announced by Rotherham based property development group Harworth, who said the deal was the largest in its history.
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BT CEO Allison Kirkby has said that the Scandinavian countries are “way ahead” of the UK in terms of its telecoms infrastructure.
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Cisco has announced that it has launched a $1 billion fund to invest in AI startups in a push to become more dominant in the AI sphere. The company has made over 20 AI-focused investments and acquisitions in the last several years.
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Swisscom has announced that its Italian subsidiary FastWeb has sold its 4.5% share of FiberCop to KKR’s subsidiary Optics BidCo for €439 million.
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Japan’s KDDI and Sharp have begun discussions with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Datasection to build an AI datacentre in Japan, which they say will be the largest in Asia.
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Germany has sold a €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) stake in Deutsche Telekom through state-owned bank KfW, with the funds set to be reinvested in the country’s state-owned railway network.
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Saudi Arabia’s STC group is considering the takeover of European telecom and pay-TV operator United Group, according to a report from Reuters that cited three anonymous sources familiar with the discussions.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) is open to new business deals once the sale of its fixed-line network NetCo is completed, CEO Pietro Labriola told reporters on a podcast interview for Bloomberg.
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Last month, AST SpaceMobile agreed a new partnership with Verizon, promising to use its upcoming satellite network to deliver ubiquitous connectivity across the US. Now, weeks later, the company’s value continues to surge, with its share price rising 70% to its highest level since November 2022.
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Microsoft has announced today that it will invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns ($3.21 billion) to expand its cloud and AI operations in Sweden over the next two years. The investment is Microsoft’s largest-ever commitment to Sweden.
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